Section: Latest news

The Kremlin has stated it did not promise Germany to ensure the ceasefire in Donbas as Russia ”is not party to the conflict”, and it`s ”the armed forces of Donbas” that oppose Ukraine, Russia`s presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told an UNIAN correspondent in Moscow. ”There is a ceasefire, which is violated… In this wording, Moscow could...

Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov told reporters that the Normandy format meeting at the highest level would be held only when there were ”real issues” to be discussed, an UNIAN correspondent in Russia reported. When asked whether high-level talks in the Normandy format could be restarted in October, Peskov said: ”We are not...

Hryvnia quotations against the dollar on the interbank currency market on Thursday fell to UAH 26.16/26.25 to the dollar by the middle of trade, a broker at a commercial bank has told an UNIAN correspondent. Thus, the national currency has weakened by 18 kopiykas against the U.S. dollar as compared to the opening of trade. Hryvnia quotes against...

Ukraine`s Energy Minister Ihor Nasalyk says Ukraine can do without any coal supplies from the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) zone if it increases consumption of gas coal instead of deficit grade of anthracite coal, of which the reserves are located mainly in the occupied territory of Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Further, the minister pointed to...

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has said that German and French foreign ministers do not force Ukraine to provide a special status to Donbas immediately. ”They understand that we need to move by political means and through the release of the hostages. There will be nothing without these components. That`s what they mean, speaking of...

A commission appointed to investigate the 2010 presidential plane crash has said that there were serious shortcomings in a report on the crash drafted by the previous government, according to Radio Poland. The commission said at a press conference on Thursday, September 15, that black-box recordings were ”manipulated and shortened”, adding that a...

Deficit of Ukraine`s foreign trade in goods in January-July 2016 amounted to $947.4 million as compared to a surplus of $485.4 million in the same period last year, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine reported on its website. Goods exports from Ukraine in January-July 2016 fell by 10.5% year-over-year (y-o-y), to $19.545 billion, while goods...

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has announced that the International Monetary Fund`s Executive Board has approved a third disbursement to Ukraine under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) program. ”The Fund`s decision paves the way to the allocation of U.S. financial aid worth $1 billion, macro-financial assistance worth an additional sum of...

Combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 50 times in the past 24 hours, including 20 times in the Mariupol sector, 26 times in the Donetsk sector and four times in the Luhansk sector, according to the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) Headquarters. In the Donetsk sector, the enemy...

The issue of granting Ukraine visa-free regime should be considered at the meeting of Justice and Home Affairs Council of the European Union, Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine Olena Zerkal said on Ukrainian TV Channel 5. ”The issue of a visa-free regime is yet to be considered at the meeting of Justice and Home Affairs Council of the European...